JPA 2 Criteria Fetch Path Navigation

Question

With JPA 2 Criteria Join method I can do the following:

    //Join Example (default inner join)
    int age = 25;
    CriteriaBuilder cb = entityManager.getCriteriaBuilder();
    CriteriaQuery<Team> c = cb.createQuery(Team.class);
    Root<Team> t = c.from(Team.class);
    Join<Team, Player> p = t.join(Team_.players);
    c.select(t).where(cb.equal(p.get(Player_.age), age));
    TypedQuery<Team> q = entityManager.createQuery(c);
    List<Team> result = q.getResultList();

How can I do the same with fetch method, I expected that Fetch interface had get method for path navigation but it doesn't:

    //Fetch Join Example

    int age = 25;
    CriteriaBuilder cb = entityManager.getCriteriaBuilder();
    CriteriaQuery<Team> cq = cb.createQuery(Team.class);
    Root<Team> t = cq.from(Team.class);
    Fetch<Team,Player> p = t.fetch(Team_.players);
    cq.where(cb.equal(p.get(Player_.age), age)); //This leads to compilation error there is no such method get in interface Fetch
    TypedQuery<Team> q = entityManager.createQuery(cq);
    List<Team> result = q.getResultList();

According to Hiberante Documentation fetch returns a Join object which is wrong. http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/entitymanager/reference/en/html/querycriteria.html#querycriteria-from-fetch

Answer 1

Agree with you about that method, and the fact that you would expect it to allow what you say. Another option would be

Join<Team, Player> p = t.join(Team_.players);
t.fetch(Team_.players);
c.select(t).where(cb.equal(p.get(Player_.age), age));

i.e do a join(), add a fetch() for it, and then make use of the join. This is illogical and only adds to the inelegant nature of JPA Criteria, but anyway, ought to be a workaround